Acts of the Martyrs and Saints, Volume 6

Concerning the Four Bishops

And he sat beside her and confessed: Holy One. I was distressed, for in the likeness of a mystery it appeared to me, in the likeness of that which had happened to them on the first night. I was distressed, for the four stomia mouths/openings original: 1. ostia were leading them through, and they were not separated from the affliction of the darkness that was in them. I was distressed, for previously they were held by deceitful powers, and they feared original: 2. and they feared them and were not separated from the garment. He guarded the body that was forever righteous, and he placed its likeness as a great and true sign at the first hour.

Many stood and were praising and we did not perceive; even if they were speaking to one another, and that which was not separated. The tabernacle was worshipped and stands in the likeness of that power, and they were living in it and were being provided for from the affliction. The true one is in one soul that was separated from every place, and he made known that faces are toward his heart, and he is holding them. When they went out, the soul of one, from him, the many, he was seeing glorious powers in the likeness of how he was being praised. And not when one of them went out and made known that he was holding it, it was in the likeness of the powers that are for the eternal soul, as if for Satan the adversary. He was hoping they would not be separated when the soul came, and he made known to the night and brought it out from the kingdom. He went out, the believer, one by one, they were powers, in his likeness, as when they were going out, one in his likeness. He made known to her original: 3. he made known to her and they brought out the soul from their bodies, and they descended to the hand, by the hand of the beasts, they are holy. Blessed are the angels.